THEROUDE (Jean). La Vie de S. Adjuteur, ou Adjutor, confesse - Lot 607

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THEROUDE (Jean). La Vie de S. Adjuteur, ou Adjutor, confesse - Lot 607
THEROUDE (Jean). La Vie de S. Adjuteur, ou Adjutor, confesseur, natif de la ville de Vernon sur Seine en Normandie, Patron de la Noblesse & Protecteur de son Pays. [...] Paris, at the author's expense, 1638. In-8 contemporary ivory vellum. [4] ff.-104 pp, [4] ff.-40 pp ("Officium solenne S. Adjutoris confessoris[...]"), 16 pp ("Sur la vie de Saint Adjuteur de Vernon confesseur, Ode"). With a fine fold-out frontispiece depicting the saint delivered from prison and carried to heaven by two angels above the town of Vernon and the Seine, and another engraved portrait out of text depicting the saint supported by an angel and escaping from the hands of the Saracens who held him prisoner. Rare. Son of the Count of Vernon, Adjutor (b. c. 1070) went on crusade in 1095; taken prisoner and persecuted, he is said to have been miraculously freed and transported to Vernon. On his return, he built a chapel to Saint Mary Magdalene in gratitude. He was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Tiron in the Perche region, but preferred the solitude of his hermitage, where he spent the last years of his life. This saint, popular in Normandy, is mainly depicted as a monk knight, wearing chains in his hand. Bookplate E.M. Pelay. Armorial bookplate of L.E. Dubois (1856-1929), archbishop of Bourges. Ex-libris J.M. (Frère II, 559.) Enclosed: [POMMERAYE (Dom F.)], La Vie et miracles de Saint Romain archevesque de Rouen, patron de ladite ville & du diocese. [Rouen, Jean Le Boullenger, 1652. In-12 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). First cover detached, headbands missing, large dark stain on first cover. Large copper-engraved vignette bearing the arms of François II de Harlay, Archbishop of Rouen. With repeated woodcut portrait of the saint (pasted opposite page 3 and forming the recto of the litanies in fine). Ex-libris de La Germonière. Bookplate J.M. (Frère II, 398.)
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